07 Oct 2010
| by Matt Williams
GHD, the global haircare appliances brand, has appointed Partners Andrews Aldridge to handle its direct marketing.
04 Aug 2010
| by Hamish Pringle
The Goverment's reasoning behind radical cuts at the COI is flawed and, for those concerned, frustrating and galling, but the opportunity to generate further evidence of advertising's effectiveness should now be grasped, writes Hamish Pringle, director general of the IPA.
30 Jun 2010
| by Mark Banham
Sir Martin Sorrell's WPP Group has recorded a revenue rise of 1.8% in the first five months of the year, according to a trading update at the advertising network's annual general meeting.
What do experts from 11 companies think will be the next big thing(s) in digital?
Read and listen to what they have to say in essays and short films (via the links below) and see what happened when we brought them all together for a roundtable lunch debate.
Videos produced by Sarah Johnson
21 May 2010
| by Bob Willot
Private equity investment can give a company heavy debt as well as cash, Bob Willott writes.
LONDON - Maurice Lévy, chairman and chief executive of Publicis Groupe, has hailed the group's first quarter 3.1% organic growth as "quite remarkable", and called its foundations "much stronger than that of our competitors".
LONDON - Omnicom's first quarter revenues rose 6.3% to $2.92bn (£1.9bn), although profits slipped back marginally.
LONDON - Optimism in the wider economy is translating into increased ad budgets with marketing spend up for the first time in two-and-a-half years, according to the latest IPA/BDO Bellwether report.
LONDON - Havas Media has appointed its first UK head of social media Neil Kleiner to evangelise the medium across its agency portfolio.